Protection of Children Act

[John Dibble]

Section 4 - Any person found producing (in anyway making child pornography) will serve 15-25 years and $200000. Sentence depending on co-operation with the police, identification of accomplices, purchasers and identification of victems.

At current, this bill would take hold of a 19-and 17-year old couple filming themselves at sex.

Actually, if we took the bill literally, a 17-and 17-year old couple could get arrested for that. It just says 'any person' not any person over the age of X. Of course, we don't want 17 year olds to be able to legally produce the really bad type of child porn, but a 17 year old taping him/herself with another 17 year old getting 15-25 and a $200k fine seems a tad ridiculous.

While I think that this bill has very good intent, it needs some revision for some of the wierder cases.

[John Dibble]

Much better but one problems:

Protection of the Children Act - V.2 February 5, 2005
under the age of 16 and under.

Seems a bit redundant doesn't it

Agreed, and be careful how you reword it. If it is 'under the age of 16' then it means those who are 15 and under. If it is '16 and under' then it includes 16 year olds. I don't really have a preference, I'm just noting it for whatever your intents are.